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Russell Brand flew too close to the sun, it would seem. Just as the popular British comedian was gaining massive attention for confronting global authoritarianism, he was hit with an onslaught of sexual allegations by anonymous accusers, which were amplified throughout the mainstream media.

Brand, known for his left-leaning ideology, articulate critique of the war in Ukraine, and the history of NATO leading up to said war, drew a clandestine 'shadow campaign' against him, which according to Tucker Carlson, "began with governments, not private organizations, but governments, their Intel services and their policy makers." Brand was even attacked "as a Chinese propagandist" for his views on Ukraine.

"I've never been to China. I don't purport to understand China, certainly don't advocate for Chinese policy," Brand told Carlson, who suggested that the 'Chinese propagandist' allegations were nothing more than "the early seeds of a very deceptive plant that flowered more than a year later, in September, when you were accused of these crimes," referring to the sexual assault allegations.

"You were making kind of a remarkable case against the Ukrainian people and certainly not in favor of Russia," Carlson noted, to which Brand replied: "All we've essentially done is listen to brilliant academics talking about the history of NATO and the coup in 2014, in Ukraine, and Putin's explicit declaration that he would prefer, let's put it mildly, that Ukraine were not invited into NATO, the sum of the regional disputes, how they're escalating tensions. This is information that, because of independent media, is available."

Brand was also attacked after Moderna 'tracked his content' during the pandemic, and thinks that we're at a major inflection point for independent voices.

Brand also acknowledges that he put himself in an "extremely vulnerable position by being very, very promiscuous," adding "And as you have actually said, we all know how this ends. Attacks like this, a crisis like this. Hurtful though it is to be accused of what I consider to be the most appalling crimes to be accused of."

Authoritarianism and the Uniparty

Brand described what he said was "rapidly escalating" authoritarianism and "totalitarian" tactics by information gatekeepers to 'de-amplify' him.

"This seems totalitarian. To control what people are allowed to think – I think that’s the definition of it," said Carlson, to which Brand agreed, arguing that the 'uniparty' is in lockstep against the free flow of information.

Asking the right questions

Carlson noted that while major media organizations may not seem interested in pursuing serious questions about deadly world conflicts, to which Brand said that he's simply asking questions that a normal person would ask after educating himself "by listening to more educated voices than my own."

"So forgive my ignorance. I don't know much about British politics, but the way that one might intuit, hey, should we not be provoking Russia into a war zone?" Brand replied. "They have nuclear weapons. Should we think very carefully about that? I mean, how much do we want Ukraine in NATO? Do we even need NATO? Anyway? The kind of things you might think if you didn't go to university, you're a regular blue collar person working for a living, maybe in the police force or the fire service, or as a nurse or as a teacher, something that gives real value to your nation, the kind of things you might think they're true."

Brand then noted that society is distracted by design, saying "Those ideas are true. And in order to prevent you from reaching those ordinary, everyday regulations, a machine is put to constant work to conquer the space of your attention, incessantly and relentlessly filling your mind with dumb ideas and dumb distractions, making you believe there's a dash, some sugar, or a screen might be a convenient palliative as your children are marched off into an unwinnable forever war."

Freedom in exchange for safety

Brand also opined on MSM propaganda and fear campaigns, noting that authoritarianism is now "deliberately veiled in the insidious language of care, concern, safety, and convenience," and that "We’re in a time where we lurch from one crisis to another."

"The crisis is always used to legitimize certain solutions and a docile or terrified public is willingly to participate in this proposed solutions that usually involve giving up their freedom," Brand said, adding "We’re continually being invited to give up our freedom in exchange for safety or convenience and it seems that this process is radically escalating. And I feel that this is something that we will see more of in the coming year. I feel like you’ve spoken publicly about this – that we’re potentially on the precipice of serious, and to use your term ‘a hot war with Russia.’ And that’s being reported on in my country right now – it’s like we’re being prepped, groomed, primed for ‘war is coming."

We’re being kept in a state of constant anxiety in order to induce compliance," Brand continued. "That the ongoing stoking of cultural tension is to ensure that people don’t begin to recognize that actually we have far more in common with one another than we do with these curious sets of the establishment interests that seems to be transcendent of national democracy. To be explicit, I’m talking about organizations like the WHO, NATO, the WEF and their astonishing influence."

"These think tanks, and apparently independent organizations, who are not independent when you look at where they get their money – Big Pharma, or the government, or the military-industrial complex. Or the kind of people they employ – people from Deep State agencies, such as the FBI and CIA – that have extraordinary affinity with the legacy media and their ongoing agenda."

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